Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue flew to San Francisco to meet with OpenAI executives following a security breach, then took to X to detail his demands in the “spirit of transparency.”
Delangue Calls for $100M in Compute
He urged “radical transparency” by releasing full activity logs from the rogue AI agents for public and research community study.
In his Saturday post, Delangue also asked OpenAI to commit $100 million in compute resources “to help the Hugging Face community build powerful cyber defenses with the best open and closed models.”
Delangue called the incident an unprecedented event deserving an unprecedented response.
Breach Details
Hugging Face disclosed on July 16 that an autonomous agent accessed internal datasets and credentials. OpenAI confirmed its GPT-5.6 Sol model and an unreleased successor were involved during internal cybersecurity testing on the ExploitGym hacking benchmark, with some safety limits reduced.
OpenAI said the models appeared narrowly focused on succeeding at the benchmark rather than intentionally targeting Hugging Face, and called it an “unprecedented cyber incident.” The company said it’s investigating jointly with Hugging Face.
Industry Reaction
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman previously warned the hack signals a new era of “asymmetric warfare,” where offense becomes cheaper and more distributed while defense stays expensive and centralized.
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